@suricrasia 'k!

…The website it was hosted on is gone, and before I found a copy on archive.org I found someone's pastebin, so I'm just linking this:

https://pastebin.com/B4xBeQp4

I should just rehost it, that would also give me a chance to fix a small factual error inserted by the editors (I am still bitter about this)

@suricrasia @mcc

I just jolted awake by something that your story reminded me of. Back when I was getting my bachelor’s degree, I was doing research in the field of cryptography. I was mainly interested in lattice-based cryptography, as well as other post-quantum problems.

I’ve always liked not only learning, but trying to come up with good ways of teaching or building intuition in people that may not have an adequate background for a class. At the time I was thinking about how to best *visualize* modular arithmetic and why prime modulos become important in cryptography. Another thing I was interested in was: is it possible to embed a cryptographic algorithm in a game that you can play. In other words, can you use a (hopefully playable) NP-hard game as a hardness assumption/cryptographic primitive in a toy cryptosystem?

Your story reminded me of my own attempts to embed tough problems into games :)

Okay my brain is fried right now. I might not make sense.. have a good night/day!